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...glowed Susskind in the darkness of NBC's vast Brooklyn sound stage one long, tense afternoon last week. Around him rolled the final rehearsals of Kraft Theater's Part 2 of All the King's Men, Novelist Robert Penn Warren's case history of a Huey Longish red-neck politician's rise and fall. Skidding between 14 sets under the glaring lights, fretting actors stumbled over camera cables. Before banks of baffling screens and switches in the darkened control room hunched wild-haired Director Sydney Lumet ("Places, dears. From the top, daddy-O, and punch...
...suffers from a Julius Caeser about as imperial as a bourgeois Huey Long sans pitch-fork and red neck. From a Marlon Brando rendition of Mark Antony which turns him into a thick-skulled gladiator with Actor's Studio eyebrows who reads his lines like Bartlett quotations...
Died. "Diamond Jim" Moran (real name: James Brocato), 61, New Orleans restaurateur, onetime prizefighter, bodyguard of Governor Huey Long, flashy-dressing sporting figure who liked to show up at such events as the Kentucky Derby wearing diamonds from head to toe, including diamond-studded teeth and a few carats on the zipper of his pants; of a heart attack; in New Orleans...
When the news of his confession spread through Chinatown, the elders of the Huey clan sensed the crisis, met in a laundry on Leavenworth Street, decided to parade into Assistant U.S. Attorney James B. Schnake's office and ask for mercy...
...halt the flow by fining and jailing Chinese who deal directly in slot contacts, in the past year and a half have prosecuted 69. The U.S. probably will not prosecute the others, since deporting them would be impracticable. But all this did not ease the situation of old Huey Bing Dai, who gave everything away. "The whole town's mad at him," said a young Chinese-American. "He will not be happy here...